GRE Word List
PANACEA
a remedy for all ills or difficulties : cure-all
The meaning of the word panacea is a remedy for all ills or difficulties : cure-all.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| dismember | to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of |
| bastard | a child born to parents who are not married to each other |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| tenacity | the quality or state of being tenacious |
| bacchanal | orgy |
| annihilate | to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains |
| lag | one that lags or is last |
| snip | a small piece that is snipped off |
| cull | to select from a group : choose |